Quotes about Evolution

Compared to when I was a boy, we now live in reverse. The people are locked up in their homes at night and criminals are outside on the loose! When I was young, the criminals were locked up and the people were free to move about. That time has passed for many cities.

To begin a transformation you must peel back the layers and go to your core.

I've written a number of books that have to do with the evolution of humans, human intelligence, human emotions.

I am not a creationist as the term is usually understood. I believe that the earth is billions of years old and the universe even older. I do believe that God is the creator, but that's a completely different thing. I've written in defense of evolution and made arguments that are based on evolution.

Behold, these things pass away, that others may replace them, and so this lower universe be completed by all his parts.

The education of the human race, represented by the people of God, has advanced, like that of an individual, through certain epochs, or, as it were, ages, so that it might gradually rise from earthly to heavenly things, and from the visible to the invisible.

Passing hence from infancy, I came to boyhood, or rather it came to me, displacing infancy. Nor did that depart,—(for whither went it?)—and yet it was no more.

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

Nothing is yet in its true form.

You cannot coherently affirm the Christian-truth claim and the dominant model of evolutionary theory at the same time.

I would rather be the offspring of two apes than be a man and afraid to face the truth.

Tolstoy's so-called inconsistencies were a sign of his development and his passionate regard for truth.